EARTH-HOUSES

a4 naine generally given throughout Scotland to underground buildings, also known ag Picts’ houses’ or ‘Picts’ dwellings.’ The earth-house in ite simplest form cousists of a single hesulaerana eed chamber, formed of unhewn stones, the side walls gradually converging towards the top until they can be roofed by stones of 4 or 5 feet in width, all covered in by a@ mound of earth rising slightly above the level of the adjacent ground. In the more advanced form of these structures two or three chambers are found, Karthhouses are frequent in the north-east of Scotland, occasionally thirty or forty being found in the same locality. Querns, bones, deers’ horns, car then ve els, cups and implements of bone, stone celt a, bronze swords, and the like, are occasionally found in connection with them. Ver elinilar structures, known as beehive-houses, occur also in Ireland and Cornwall.